Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 df4253cb58e3e9ef…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.5 KB Created: 2021-10-16 08:10:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 230a3c8f09952441e6c492c48cb4abb5 SHA-1: c0c68f2f356b280c5fd0fd089b4604d2b285c3c9 SHA-256: df4253cb58e3e9ef5a50f40e5c07234f9b2bec9fb63daf684df1aa87b11d4e53
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to numerous external URLs, with several hosted on compromised CMS upload directories. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL analysis suggest a malicious document designed to lure users to potentially harmful websites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • PDF link farm points to compromised-WordPress upload storage medium PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM
    PDF contains multiple clickable links, across many distinct hosts, whose targets are random-slug files parked in the upload directories of vulnerable WordPress form plugins (FormCraft, Super Forms). This is the hallmark of the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains hosted on compromised sites. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL http://hoya-system.com/uploads/files/202110161230218411.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://uzmanwebci.com/calisma2/files/uploads/22533948530.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wizclub.net/upload/userfiles/file/50342781506.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myblindz.com/fck_user_files/file/vewebubedoviniwuvapede.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://panoramabyty.cz/content/26948134650.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://strahovka66.ru/userfiles/file/sagepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samajsutra.com/userfiles/files/10535921277.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mirembeestate.co.ug/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614e3e11c6cf5---32010889820.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tsydesign.com/userfiles/jws/files/ligopujar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://premiercontainerlines.com/media/ftp/file/59731219321.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dermatologomiguelgallego.com/miguel/fck/file/madozitosodid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wxmx.cn/upload/ckimg/files/202109052258205391.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maychaybocaocap.com/app/webroot/uploads/files/lovubotu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gamletaarnhuset.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16169fe75bf4f4---bubutuxobanagigipex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://german-ex.com/images/blog/file/mefemadonufokavekitiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://areshin.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/96cb6bbe43a9f73880a0480147b560f3/22164851775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hatdesechia.com/storage/ckfinder/files/7490976815.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gd-weimi.com/upfolder/e/files/20210920084315.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://catequesisnavarra.org/guiarte_userfiles/files/58909373625.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hacunamatata.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/46ddc5f4678c2ac2e6a901775d1ca555/gopusagipupusiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://voziky-paletove.cz/mctree.cz/pictures/other/files/lezerakotax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecohost.ru/pics/images/file/zutorepowazisoni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xenonsvjetla.com/files/61723472147.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://melissajacksonmd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1616a4ea5b7f9c---29863692642.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goldenpeak.it/userfiles/files/4289499605.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MbOu/~3/23D8k0Ec_6w/uplcv?utm_term=how+much+is+it+to+take+braces+offPDF link annotation
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e617.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE617 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fe2e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE2E 10860 bytes
SHA-256: bbf155b8277f82f7c14bbe587ed053b1b83c65b13048b082f9f7c034b14cfded
font_02_sfnt_off00011758.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11758 17188 bytes
SHA-256: e4d659ebc34467cdbf28a9f69605c634a11d12f83f77cbc9fabe856b0dbb135c